Author: Jeremy

Hi all! Team Gold is proud to announce that we’re hosting voter registration drives at the Lussier Food Pantry every Saturday, from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM from now until the November 6th election (except for September 1st). We’re also doing the same at the monthly Lussier Community Education Center’s (LCEC) Community Meals. Check out our calendar for exact dates, times, and location

We’ll be adding more opportunities soon, so be on the lookout for those as well.

There are great opportunities to shadow an experienced voter education ambassador if you want to get involved registering voters. Email us at teamgoldwi@gmail.com if you’re interested!

We’re partnering with the Madison City Clerk’s Office to do voter outreach this week at a couple locations. If you’ve had Voter Ambassador Training with the City Clerk, feel free to sign up for these.

• June 21: Voter outreach at the Salvation Army
• June 21: Voter outreach at River Food Pantry
• June 22: Voter outreach at River Food Pantry

Visit http://www.cityofmadison.com/VoterOutreach to sign up for voter outreach time slots. If you need to attend the Voter Ambassador Training, check the Clerk’s Office calendar located here: http://www.cityofmadison.com/clerk/calendar

If you are interested in additional training beyond that, the League of Women Voters of Dane County and the Dane County Voter ID Coalition will offer Everything You Wanted to Know about Helping Voters but were Afraid to Ask on July 18 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Goodman Library, 2222 S. Park Street.  I have heard wonderful reviews of this training.  To attend, sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/helpvoters-July18

• July 18: Voter Outreach Training

Hello! We’re making some website changes, mainly to use the blog more than updating our static home page for our event postings. We’re hoping this makes it easier to keep track of what we’re doing. If you have any suggestions, pleas emails us at teamgoldwi@gmail.com

Note: We’re making some changes to the web site to make it more mobile friendly, so bear with us as we go through this transition.

Below are our events for late June and early August. Email us at teamgoldwi@gmail.com to RSVP for any of these events!

• June 21: Voter outreach at the Salvation Army
• June 21: Voter outreach at River Food Pantry
• June 22: Voter outreach at River Food Pantry
• June 26: Team meeting at Sofra’s Family Bistro
• July 10: Visit to Ron Johnson’s Office
• July 18: Voter Outreach Training
• July 28: Power to the Polls Women’s March

Here are some thoughts from one of our canvassers from our September canvas!

Canvass data: We had a very successful canvass.  The unofficial data that I collected  from our canvassers (Canvass Tally Sheets) is:

• 255 doors knocked. We didn’t meet our 350 goal, but that’s OK; READ ON!
• 6 Canvassers
• 7 turfs
• 0 flake rate (no shows)  AWESOME!
• 75 contacts
• 29% contact rate VERY HIGH

For me personally, it was one of the most POSITIVE canvasses I have done since the 2012 campaign.  I did my immediate Elderberry neighborhood.  EVEN got into an inaccessible condo building and no one questioned me.  I had a 34% contact rate with lots of interest.  People were engaging, wanted to talk and agreed it was important to be involved. Everyone appreciated our handout with my name, website (I hand wrote) and e-mail address. My plan is to follow up early Oct. with an informal info/ dessert gathering inviting those I talked to.  If any of you know of any neighbors or have contacts of people that are interested I encourage you to invite them as well once I/we fine tune the details.  Stay tuned.

Our next canvas is November 4th, sign up by emailing teamgoldwi@gmail.com

We held a canvassing event August 19th. We had six canvassers and hit 158 doors. We held a cookout afterwards and had a guest from Tammy Baldwin’s office!

You can join us for our next canvassing event this weekend, September 16th. Email us at teamgoldwi@gmail.com to let us know you’re coming.

Team Gold is a west Madison neighborhood Volunteer group that engages in community activities to create public interest regarding issues that directly impact the quality of life, locally, state wide and nationally. We also organize in our neighborhood in support of Democratic candidates for office on the local, state and national level.

Team Gold was founded in 2008 as one of the original Organizing for Obama grassroots teams in Dane County. We are now one of 24 Neighborhood Action Teams in Dane County. We work year-round to promote progressive values and elect Democratic candidates. As experienced volunteers, we’ll gladly provide the training and support you need to be an effective canvasser. If you prefer not to canvass, please let us know what you are interested in doing by filling out this brief survey. There are many other ways you can volunteer and make a difference. Please join us!

What do we do?

• Door-to-door canvasing to engage like-minded neighbors

• Phone banking to recruit volunteers

• Community Service

Community Forums:

• Moving Wisconsin Forward: Reinvesting in the UW Wisconsin System
• How Many Kids Left Behind?  An Interactive Community Conversation on the Future of our Public Schools

Team Gold Slideshow

Check out our calendar to find more events!